潘

潘 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+12, 15 strokes, cangjie input 水竹木田 (EHDW), four-corner 3216₉, composition ⿰氵番)

• 藩, 籓, 𤄤

• KangXi: page 649, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18236
• Dae Jaweon: page 1058, character 26
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1745, character 10
• Unihan data for U+6F58

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *pʰaːn) : semantic 水 (“water”) + phonetic 番 (OC *paːl, *paːls, *pʰaːn, *pʰan, *ban).

潘

1. (obsolete or Min) water in which rice has been rinsed

   • 其間面垢，燂潘請靧。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     其间面垢，燂潘请𫖃。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Book of Rites, c. 4^th – 2^nd century BCE

     Qíjiān miàn gòu, xún pān qǐng huì. [Pinyin]

     If in the meantime their faces appear dirty, they should heat the wafer in which the rice has been cleaned, and ask them to wash with it.

2. a surname

   潘金蓮／潘金莲  ―  Pān Jīnlián  ―  Pan Jinlian (fictional female character in Water Margin and Jin Ping Mei)

3. Used in place names.
4. (Greek mythology) Pan

Others:

• → English: Pan, Poon, Pun, Phua
• → Mandarin: ㄆㄨㄣ (pūn) (Taiwanese slang from Hokkien)
• → Tagalog: Pua (via Hokkien)

潘

1. (obsolete) whirlpool

潘

1. (obsolete, of water) to overflow

• “潘”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• “Entry #11192”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Chinese and Min Nan), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. water in which rice has been washed

• Go-on: はん (han)
• Kan-on: はん (han)
• Kun: しろみず (shiromizu, 潘)^{←しろみづ (siromidu, 潘, historical)}

潘 • (ban, beon) (hangeul 반, 번, revised ban, beon, McCune–Reischauer pan, pŏn, Yale pan, pen)

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潘: Hán Nôm readings: phan, Phan

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